full picture posts. on to and from around the globe in the book to book too. supplies are running low on an estimated seventy percent of house personnel have fled the area. over the humanitarian crisis in eastern ukrainian cities that have been. there is no. crisis in ukraine as it is continued to be portrayed by our russian colleagues in kiev denies the state of affairs as being as bad as people are saying ukraine saying it needs no international help to cope with the issues on the ground. wanted by death destruction and havoc thousands of refugees lined up at ukraine's border with russia. follow those forced to leave their lives behind on their journey to safety

. and u.s. officials confirm a new insider is leaking secrets surveillance documents to the media more than a year after edward snowden began lifting the lid. and. holding in. long israeli leaves the tiny territory salvaged and almost nineteen hundred palestinians dead. welcome to your world headlines here on r.t. international. in moscow people in east ukraine second biggest city of lugansk say life has become unbearable since the army troops began. half of the residents have abandoned their homes and with essentially no water power or food supplies the city

council has announced a humanitarian crisis the phone connections have all been severed social networks are boiling with attempts to get any information from those left trapped in lugansk here's some of what's been reported by a senior u.n. human affairs of fish. insecurity and violence prevail in conflict areas resulting in a steady worsening of the humanitarian situation fighting has caused significant damage to infrastructure affecting the power and water supplies and access to basic services health supplies are running low and an estimated seventy percent of health personnel have fled and this will continue to deteriorate for as long as violence persists the report was part of the latest un security council session where the east ukraine crisis was of course in the spotlight but it seems that kiev's representatives neither particularly trust the u.n. data nor share the views of their own citizens there is no need when india in crisis in ukraine as it is continued to be portrayed by our russian colleagues and

this was backed by some western delegations who were instead trying to shift the attention towards russia's alleged role in the conflict and even brought up the issue of sanctions while in fact it was moscow who initiated the emergency meeting of the un security council on the humanitarian crisis the russian ambassador calling for a swift international efforts to stop civilian suffering and open ways to bring in aid supplies. but. it was the artillery tanks as well as grad rockets have been used. locals are saying phosphorus in cluster bombs are still being used there is indiscriminate shelling of housing blocks and critical civilian infrastructure in many small towns about eighty percent of houses have been destroyed according to the most conservative estimates more than six hundred buildings have been razed to the ground. the attempts to flee the war zone or even just getting around areas which haven't yet suffered heavy fighting is getting

increasingly dangerous the video we've just received in the region clearly shows that if i let's show it to you this video purportedly showing the moment when a rocket hits the highway somehow the driver survived that he says it's because he actually plated his vehicle. and ukrainian officials say several civilians have been killed by artillery fire on the outskirts of donetsk of that second key antigovernment stronghold and here at r.t. international we've been getting reports of a heavy fighting between kiev's troops and local militias are fighting very severe there went deep into the night hours they spring up about here on the program to show you what's going on the ukrainian army said to be closing in on dawn yet there have been reported bolstering its ground missile systems with kiev saying it's now preparing for a decisive offensive and we're now hearing from the outskirts of donetsk that it's already coming under fire in fact we spoke to one local journalist who got there moments after the shelling there is

a lot of heat if you are essential air has come under artillery fire almost the very center of the district where there's huge supermarkets there's at least one victim the shells hit a school an office building and a bus stop there were about five or six massive blasts and they hit the residential area in the biggest district. near the supermarket and at the bar store there were no self-defense forces for sure. it's normally supposed to be a pleasant time summertime that is for the people of danya school shows and pictures here about the same time in previous years but ukraine's fifth biggest city was full of smiling faces of different colors when it hosted matches for the european football championships and twenty twelve that included a semifinal as well but it's hard to contemplate for us let alone the locals that the suburbs of the same city are now a total war zone and have been reduced to being states of rubble and debris just in

time for the euro twenty twelve donetsk opened a brand new international airport terminal all flights now suspended and it's been the focal point of the fighting. driven to desperation by the now four month long army offensive thousands have been fleeing the conflict zone coming to russia forced to leave behind their lives and their homes artie's were for an option in our reporting or one of those border crossings. in each of these cars individual stories of anger uncertainty and loss. these ukrainians are fleeing their homes for russia after months of conflict has left well over one thousand civilians dead and reduced whole cities to rubble the people in these cars have already spend six or seven hours sitting in line waiting to cross the border which is still a kilometer away but they say they're ready to wait as they practically have no

other choice but bill overclock the mark well below average immigrants made up of the national sociopaths. who. live in is no car got more snow with this train you don't usually many of the cars here have a sign saying they've got children on board a war doesn't discriminate between age or gender only your child will pull out your choice it's a. game to kids who. would put it off the top at all sure this will get us closer to his nose the way that little i'm going to press the point you know which of you wait a minute this is where many refugees will end up when they make it across the border to russia and people here are angry because i saw the mafia but also my but i still not all feel worse it should have brought so i'm a bit from matter what it really got me to but i'm floored it's go so far but i started. the quarter the doctor says his family has no room

to go back to ruin a story of the more you draw. your thoughts enjoy your oath before a board the no rights group over for. most of what are you and your group here going to use if you're going to be ethical. he invites me to see where they found shelter the rest so many refugees many don't have a proper place to sleep. because his wife also doctor tells us how she lost her home and is there for dessert or before i know. the litany of teaching you do not be regular dorm before. you get a new. pressure this could be cheap this camp is designed for a thousand people but there are at least twice as much air now every afternoon officials managed to send up to three hundred refugees from eastern ukraine to different parts of russia but every evening even more arrive these people have

managed to escape the war but their fight for a peaceful life is just beginning. me functionality from russian ukrainian border. maria has been in the thick of both the violence and the humanitarian crisis underway across ukraine's restive eastern regions you can keep up to date on all the very latest developments with all of what maria is reporting by visiting our you tube channel. ten minutes past the hour moscow time the u.s. government has hundreds of thousands of seemingly innocent people on its terrorism watch list according to the latest revelations in the media but the secret information was not leaked by edward snowden this time there's a new insider in town and washington is scrambling to find him is artie's guy in a chicken. online news source the intercept published an article this tuesday titled barack obama's secret terrorist tracking system by the numbers where its

authors jeremy scahill and wind of last cite an unnamed source in the intelligence community the documents that the sources provided to journalists cast aware light on the u.s. government's use of ever expanding federal watch list of suspected terrorists boarding to the journal this report more than forty percent of the six hundred eighty thousand individuals listed in the u.s. terrorist screening database have quote no recognized terrorist group affiliation it's about two hundred eighty thousand people their names being shared with local police agencies contractors and governments around the globe so nearly half of the people on the u.s. government's widely shared database of terrorist suspects are not connected to any known terrorist group the source couldn't be edward snowden because that document featured in this latest intercept story is they did august two thousand and

thirteen that would be weeks after snowden identified himself as the source of the n.s.a. leak and had already arrived in moscow there's someone new willing to take the risk of revealing what the u.s. government is doing under the umbrella of national security someone who probably wants to change something but sees no way to do that other than turning to the press and to the public it was a blow it was are taking huge risks to try and get the truth out since there's no strong laws to protect them in america and that's according to defense. snowden wiki leaks they lost massive amounts of secrets and so i think they're probably very nervous that they've got another leaker and maybe they don't know who it is so big u.s. government does care about this so blowers are very dedicated because they're there's all sorts of informal and formal sanctions against the whistleblowers there's supposed to be laws that protect them the but there are in the united

states they're probably not. strong enough so so are you see people taking risks to make the story known. are still ahead if you hear one on c international the long awaited t.v. debate on scottish independence on the program we'll look at the heated arguments on the exchanges over the two rivals also to come here on our international learn how the russian empire contributed to the allies cools in the first world war and what price if they win it all came to an end. this is the media leave us so we leave the media. by the sea motions your. mother your party is it the. questions that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from. politic only on r t.

they just want to keep building in allowing saudi arabia qatar and iran to fund millions and millions of pounds worth of the building of mosques in this country where they have addresses where we have one hundred thousand four to sixteen year old children who have been schooled in these mature assets which is encouraging complete non integration within this is so. low again the three day cease fire. holding. onto say israel decided to withdraw

its army after almost a month the fighting with hamas both sides to cairo aiming to secure a longer term deal the i.d.f. though saying it has completed its main mission which was to target hamas by destroying their hideouts tunnels the campaign has brought the worst devastation on civilian losses in years and there are many dissenting voices actually to be found within the israeli defense forces. when i spoke to them. yeah there there are a lot of soldiers a come back and say to yourself you know what the hell are we doing here you know why are we using so much force why are we treating them as way hannah is one such form israeli soldier she calls herself an anti occupation activist and was one of fifty reserve troops to sign an open letter to the washington post but fusing reserve duty aka national law only about a year in the service i didn't talk about this thing and so many are there you just a part of it but more and more soldiers are choosing not to be part of an army

increasingly seen as the bully in the region we are spending billion billion a rural or. different through system and there is no top of the front of the pool. for. the possibility prove overcoming five wars in eighty years levanon two thousand and six thirty four days more than eight hundred people killed and in the end israel faced an even stronger hizbollah for devastating wars with them us two thousand and six eight twelve and fourteen thousand killed international outrage and in the end israel faced a unity government between former rivals hamas and fatah her foreign policy was. we had four years in which we lost the middle east. we lost. we in

a way lost egypt. we are of very eyes in the middle east and many would argue more vulnerable the latest operation protective age has done seemingly little to protect israel in the long term you're not going to finish by trying to physically destroy hamas there isn't and there's nothing that indicates that it will work this time or indeed the next time and that's taking its toll on the reputation of what was once considered one of the world's most efficient fighting forces the hope is that the coming days will see a permanent cease fire in place but bottom line gaza is in tatters mistrust between israelis and palestinians is at an all time high policy r.t. tel aviv. israel fired well over four thousand rockets at the guards or during this time the result was nearly nineteen hundred palestinians being killed around four hundred thirty of them were children and the mission also damaged well over one hundred sixty schools along with twenty four hospitals which of course were

overflowing with the injured and dying the u.n. now estimating that up to four hundred eighty five thousand gazans were displaced a builder and as veiled from the human rights watch who says it is fair to brand the operation as that of a war crime. operation has been a catastrophic failure. you know whether or not we will continue to see rocket launches whether or not the israeli political and military leadership feels they are able to claim success now is of less direct concern than the fact that gaza's infrastructure is on the brink of collapse there has been such massive destruction in areas that the israeli military declared a no go zone that covered almost half of gaza's territory many families were not able to return to the remains of their homes not their homes but what's left of them a large number of attacks we've seen where attacks were launched without any military objects in the area large numbers of civilians getting killed by very precise

advanced weapons and you know despite the fact that there were no rockets being launched from their areas that there were no members of palestinian armed groups in those areas but what's most important from our perspective is that there be accountability for the crimes that have been committed here ceasefire or no ceasefire i mean we've seen cease fires in the past be held up as as justifications when western countries or the israeli military claims that hamas violated the cease fire in the past that has been held up as a justification and a claim that any future civilian deaths would be the responsibility of hamas for violating the cease fire and that is completely incorrect and quite dangerous what has to happen is that you know the laws of war need to stop being violated and that finally for once in gaza there needs to be criminal accountability for war crimes the decision to scale back the operation follows a kooris of global condemnation of spain's outrages or soon it become the second

country to. sales to tel aviv britain says it's reviewing its eight billion pound weapons agreement with israel a british labor m.p. told my colleague kevin know that he's severely doubts these countries condemnation will go any further than just woods. unfortunately they've dragged their feet for too long they can even condemn this portion of the action that's taking place. quite rightly said is a war crime and the issues are so desperate about innocent people men women and very very young children baroness warsi from u.k. foreign office resigned and she from the government she she couldn't support this anymore you think we'll see more people of doing that kind of thing or not why i certainly hope so i think you know until we start to come to terms with those and not listen to the rhetoric that the i.d.f. israeli government forward and look at the what's happening on the ground you have to try and do that you're in britain is second largest city there you want to fly

the palestinian flag over city hall but the council said no i will continue to fight for that because it's about recognising the devastation that's taking place against innocent people civilians and children this is what this is about this is not about taking sides in the dispute that's going on about territory and who should be doing what this is about an unjust strike and retaliation against people who are unable to defend themselves at r.t. dot com right now read about this story a british police have now spent exactly seven hundred seventy seven days watching ecuador's embassy in london that's of course to make sure the wiki leaks founder julian assange doesn't sneak out on our website right now we reveal the tallying costs of this for the police and it is not cheap. also when r.t. dot com this hour the pope's already an active twitter user however he believes people should spend their time on more fruitful activities rather than fiddling with smartphones and chatting online. the first

t.v. debate on scottish independence has seen the leaders of the two rival camps clash just six weeks before the referendum alex salmond the leader of the scottish national party took on alice to darling the head of the better together campaign and artie's polyvore it was there to listen to the arguments. while running up to the debate news reports were saying that alec salmon the leader of the scottish national party had been advised to remain statesman like throughout the debate but the gloves came off from both leaders actually pretty quickly alistair darling the leader of the benteke together campaign was accused of being quite shouty throughout the debate as well perhaps the best sound bite to come out of the evening was of alex salmond explaining why he thinks scotland should become an independent country. but we still get

government but he had a bit of difficulty answering specific questions about the currency and about the economy he was asked repeatedly both by alistair darling and by members of the audience about which currency scotland would have if it couldn't retain the pounders westminster is saying that it can't he didn't have a concrete answer to that he avoided the question about what his contingency plan b. c. or d. would be another heated exchange was when alex salmond was asking alistair darling if he thinks scotland could be a successful independent country he was dodging that question pretty much as much as alexander was dodging the currency question he didn't want to give an answer and he did manage to avoid it i don't want to see your children's future i want to have the. world in fact it's not clear and experts say that t.v. debates very rarely have any sway in these very important issues that they rarely

make a difference because a lot of scots will have already made up their mind which way they want to vote. to afghanistan now where a u.s. army general who's been killed and several officers wounded in the latest shooting in the capital major general harold green is the highest ranking american officer to die in an overseas war since vietnam talk of course his victims by surprise because he was dressed in afghan military uniform more details now with. more information on the gunmen is yet to be released but we do know that he was shot dead on site now according to a pentagon spokesperson the shooter is believed to be an afghan soldier who has served for quite some time this incident is reported to be an insider attack when members of the afghan forces turn against the nato led military coalition who are on the ground in afghanistan to train them this latest incident comes as the u.s. aims to end operations in afghanistan in the nearest future of course while leasing

the key part of its tragedy on the ground on training afghan forces usually such insider attacks involve regular soldiers outraged by the continued presence of foreign troops on the ground and disgruntled by the war this one of course being the longest in u.s. history this latest so-called green on blue attack is the first of its kind in months yet far from the first in this war insider shootings peaked in two thousand and twelve and afghanistan recorded a dozen such incidents that number is officially said to have declined to fifteen last year more details will be brought into the light as the investigation of the shooting gathers pace what is certain is that it's a troublesome occurrence so close to a planned and of u.s. operations on the ground and r.t. new york. thanks for joining us today one hundred years on the world is commemorating the start of the great war with the battles which took place in western europe being the main focus ultimately leaving though the eastern front being largely overlooked. the role of russia in world war one.

plans ferdinand's murder in late set off a chain of events that would lead to the great war within a matter of days the great powers of europe particularly had war on each other and on this day exactly a century ago or three hungary declared war on russia when it all started crag cheered and welcome the fighting little did they know of the horrors that lay ahead while the battle lines were drawn long before russia joined with britain and france forming the allied powers on one side and on the other side the central powers of austria-hungary in germany later joined by the ottoman empire garia well russia fielded five million men at the start almost as much as germany and austria hungary combined and war raged everywhere and always warships delivered tons of rands with the explosion shaking the expanse of the sea conflict filled the sky city for the

first time and pilots of the first war planes were regarded as he writes the breakthrough for russia came in nine hundred sixteen russian armies managed to ram through enemy lines almost a hundred kilometers into austrian territory threatened the central powers sent thirty divisions to the eastern front easing the burden for the allies in the west from that moment too many had lost the strategic advantage but it was too late for russia papal exhausted by war coupled with a weakened government to read revolution it enjoying growing support the bolsheviks to abandon their posts and let germany have whatever it wants and by early one nine hundred eighteen the war ended for russia but despite that the role it played is hard to overstate it carried on each shoulders alone in the burden of the eastern front and helped end the war which would claim eighteen million lives.

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